True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

D.B. Cooper mystery

D.B. Cooper

On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...


Hinterkaifeck Murders mystery

Hinterkaifeck Murders

A small farm outside the Ingolstadt in Germany, was the place of mysterious murder. Six months earlier the maid left her position stating that the house was haunted, later the residents...


Lake Bodom murders mystery

Lake Bodom murders

On June 5th, 1960, four Finnish teenagers were attacked by an unknown assailant as they were camping next to Lake Bodom in southern Finland. The attack left three of the teenagers dead...


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Great mysteries

Yeti - legendary snowman mystery

Yeti - legendary snowman

The Yeti is a legendary ape-like creature that supposedly lives in the high regions of the Himalayas. The first stories about meetings with yeti emerged when Europeans arrived in Tibet...


Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...


Oak Island mystery mystery

Oak Island mystery

A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...


Disappearance of Flight MH 370 mystery

Disappearance of Flight MH 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur and was heading for Beijing in China. About 40 minutes later, just when it was leaving the Kuala Lumpur air traffic control area...





Controversial theories

JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...


Smolensk air crash mystery

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...


Pearl Harbor attack mystery

Pearl Harbor attack

The Attack on Pearl Harbor dragged the United States into the World War 2. It was the last straw that left Americans no choice but to join the Allies and declare war on Japan. At least...



Unexplained phenomena

Bermuda Triangle mystery

Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is a region in the Northern Atlantic between the eastern coast of the United States and the Bermuda Islands, where some unexplained events took place since the 15th century...


Amityville horror house mystery

Amityville horror house

An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...


Ghost stories mystery

Ghost stories

Ghost stories are part of human culture - even in the Dark Ages, our predecessors believed that we’re not actually dying when our body dies. The spirit, the soul or some other form...



Crime and mystery movies

The Black Dahlia 2006 mystery movie

The Black Dahlia 2006

Theory behind the infamous and unsolved case of Black Dahlia.


Cube 1997 mystery movie

Cube 1997

Group of people trapped inside strange construction has to find the way to survive.


Columbo 1968 mystery movie

Columbo 1968

Lieutenant Columbo of the Los Angeles Police Department is not an average detective - he looks scruffy, he drives a rusty old Peugeot and often takes his bored dog to the crime scenes.


Fool Me Once 2024 mystery movie

Fool Me Once 2024

Disgraced former soldier sets out to find out how it is possible she has seen her dead husband, who was murdered months earlier.



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